On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:36:07AM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >On 2014-07-08 10:02, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:55:55AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >>> Grasping at straws, as usual, I wonder if these mysterious crashes could >>> be related to a bug that Corinna just fixed: >>> >>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2014-q3/msg00004.html >>> >>> Corinna, is this plausible? If so, maybe Gustav should try the next >>> snapshot of the Cygwin DLL. (The current one doesn't seem to have this >>> fix in it.) >> >> Actually, I was scratching my head over that change and wondering >> what it was supposed to solve. > >We believe that this was the cause of e.g. mandb aborting on x86_64 >without manually enlarging the stack commit size:
"We"? Isn't that testable by setting the stack size down and putting a printf in cygwin somewhere? In any event, the comment in my code which is supposed to explain why the tag is commented out is lacking details. If this patch is a joint effort then please add more details to the change that you made to my code. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
